In an echo of ‘ping-pong diplomacy,’ Google thought that its Go-playing AI might help reintroduce it to a huge market. China’s government had other ideas. In the spring of 2017, a year after the match in Korea, AlphaGo played its next match, in Wuzhen, China, an ancient water town 80 miles south of Shanghai along the Yangtze River. With its lily ponds, stone bridges, and narrow boat canals that snaked between rows of small wooden houses topped by rock-tile roofs, Wuzhen is a village meant ...
In an echo of ‘ping-pong diplomacy,’ Google thought that its Go-playing AI might help reintroduce it to a huge market. China’s government had other ideas. In the spring of 2017, a year after the match in Korea, AlphaGo played its next match, in Wuzhen, China, an ancient water town 80 miles south of Shanghai along the Yangtze River. With its lily ponds, stone bridges, and narrow boat canals that snaked between rows of small wooden houses topped by rock-tile roofs, Wuzhen is a village meant ...
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